Nagin's incompetence? Nah, couldn't be! He's...well, you know!
Posted on 05/24/2015 11:17:19 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
NEW ORLEANS — Nearly 10 years on, one might assume that the case of Hurricane Katrina is closed.
That the catastrophic flooding of this city was caused not merely by a powerful storm but primarily by fatal engineering flaws in the city’s flood protection system has been proved by experts, acknowledged by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and underscored by residents here to anyone who might suggest otherwise.
But the efforts to establish responsibility with ever more precision — to ascertain just how many of those flaws were due to engineering, politics or money — have not stopped.
A pending article in the peer-reviewed journal Water Policy, written by experts involved in some of the most significant previous examinations of the catastrophe, sets out to refine some high-profile early versions of the factors that led to the disaster. The article rebuts assessments of the levee system’s design process that had spread responsibility around to include local officials, and it contends that fault should fall even more squarely on the corps. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
None of this matters to the liberals. It’s still all the fault of George W. Bush.
I am still shocked and dismayed, 10 years out, at how the liberals took a terrible national natural disaster, and politicized it. And succeeded in politicizing a hurricane.
Bush’s fault. And don’t forget Rove’s weather machine.
...and how little politicization has taken place after Sandy hit the northeast - even though many people are still living in packing crates.
What nobody talks about is the black underclass mentality. We don’t need to go nowhere! The gubmint is gonna come and help.
That’s exactly how they thought prior to the storm hitting.
Nagin's incompetence? Nah, couldn't be! He's...well, you know!
We should put the Army Corps of Engineers out of business. They are simply a militarized version of the envirowhackos who use their power to assault the citizenry.
Back in 2005, Al Sharpton said the Army Corps of Engineers used a new military type of “Silent Dynamite” to blow the levies, and thus flood the black areas. I guess that was proof enough for some! LOL.
And they had no NEO plan, none of the required actions of a proper NEO plan were taken, no NEO actions were taken when Katrina hit, no good sense NEO actions were Enforced. Whoes responsibility was it to do all this? State Gov., Cty Cmn, & the Mayer.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the Bush Administration's lack of climate regulations created the meteorological conditions for Katrina:
Kennedy cites a 2001 memo sent to President Bush from Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi – a state devastated by Katrina – arguing against the regulation of carbon-dioxide gases, saying Barbour himself derided the idea of regulating CO2 as “eco-extremism.”
“Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil-fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and – now – Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.”
They did nothing with the tools they were given to help their own population, and then blamed Bush for the resulting disaster.
Corruption and siphoning funds from useful projects to useless feel goodies, and Ray Nagin.
Blamining any one else is being “STUCK ON STUPIG.”
YOU ARE SO CORRECT! Between the Democrats pocketing the monies allegedly intended for disaster preparedness, and the Army Corp of Engineers so fond of themselves it’s a wonder New Orleans still exists, and that’s in spite of New Orleans itself.
There is no doubt in my mind that Katrina saved tens (perhaps hundreds) of thousands of lives. The shoddy levy system was all about collapse and what Katrina did was make sure that most of the city was evacuated when it did.
In prison?
The Corps designed and built the levees that failed. Their designs were flawed and the construction did not meet standards.
There is no one else to blame.
Since 8 Sept 2014, yes, but not for what happened in Katrina. Nor does he have to pay back the more than $585,000 in restitution and forfeiture due to the 21 corruption charges, including wire fraud, conspiracy, bribery, money laundering, and filing false tax returns related to bribes from city contractors (guilty on all but one).
The state pissed away the funds allocated for barrier construction. This is not news.
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